The Heart of the Matter Lesson Plan

History Lesson: Vichy French, Germans: Who are they and where were they?

Kind of Activity:

Mixed Media

Objective:

Geography and WWII

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7

Structure:

Students likely have studied World War II, but the nuances of the African front are often omitted in secondary education, and sometimes a person's only exposure to the notion of Allied and Axis proxy colonies in Africa is through Casablanca. This novel takes place in an unspecified British, and therefore Allied aligned, colony in Africa, near to other colonies under the control of Vichy France.

This excellent Wikipedia atlas has a series of maps showing the progression of...